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In Hollywood, story is king. But most writers know only a handful of story techniques. And they work with slow, painstaking creative methods that lead to a weak story with no chance of selling. |
| Truby's BLOCKBUSTER puts over 300 professional techniques at your fingertips to help you create a great story, in a fraction of the usual time and effort. Don't believe that's possible from a software program? Try it. You'll write your best script ever. We guarantee it. | "...the largest collection of story tools ever assembled in one place." |
The new BLOCKBUSTER 5.0 makes you an even more accomplished storyteller. What's new? BLOCKBUSTER 5.0:
• Has an additional 100 techniques, to give you the largest collection of story tools ever assembled in one place. In your computer.
• Helps you find what is truly original in your story and execute it professionally.
• Connects all the story elements under the surface in a seamless whole.
• 14 major help areas to explain every aspect of the storytelling craft.
• Over 100 story examples on screen and online to solve any story problem you might encounter.
• 8 story shapes to show you how to build the perfect plot for your unique idea.
• Totally redesigned interface that's quick, productive and easy.
• Horizontal ribbons for fewer clicks to all screens.
• Navigation tree shows every beat in your story in one view.
• Larger screen area so you have more room to work.
• Galleries for easy-to-make choices of all your story elements.
All this added to the powerful features that have made BLOCKBUSTER the award-winning story creation program:
• Premise and Genre screens show you the 'gold' of your idea and which genre forms are best for expressing it.
• Character Web and List screens help you create complex characters that grow over the course of the story and move the reader.
• The Structure Steps screen takes you through the 22 Building Blocks of every great story, giving you a surprising plot that builds steadily from beginning to end.
• 'Drag and drop' Scene List shows you the right structural order for your scenes, and lets you figure out the ideal sequence in a fraction of the time.
• Rewrite shows you the deep structural weaknesses that are likely to be in your script and takes you through the ideal order for fixing them.
• Truby's complete Story Structure Course, the 103 Greatest Characters in fiction, 23 most valuable Story Techniques, and much more.
Price $295
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
WINDOWS:
Windows 2000, XP or Vista
MACINTOSH:
Intel Macs: Use Windows BB5, with Boot Camp (free
from Apple) or Parallels Desktop, and Windows XP
or Vista (Windows does not come installed on Macs
and MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY).
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| Genre Bundle | 3 Genres Add-On Bundle | 6 Genres Add-On Bundle |
BLOCKBUSTER REVIEWS:
"This guy is the best script doctor in the movie industry, and this program makes you tell a good story whether you want to or not. A winner. If you even toy with the idea of storytelling, you must have this product. Highly recommended."
John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
"I'm not exaggerating: Truby's Blockbuster revolutionized how I work. It's the simplest way I've ever found to build structure, character and theme. If you use a computer to write screenplays, you'll want Blockbuster."
Laurence Dworet, screenwriter Outbreak
"Blockbuster is all that it is advertised to be, a virtual screenwriting school, and a great one at that.
Skip Press, The Complete Idiot's Guilde to Screenwriting
"Blockbuster is an ingenious and multilevel guide through the maze of story organization... way ahead of any other writing tool I know of."
Jeff Arch, screenwriter Sleepless in Seattle
"I think of all of them Truby's the best. I actually use Blockbuster, because I think he's really good. For my taste, his stuff cuts the deepest, and allows you to develop the most detailed structure and outline."
Larry Wilson, screenwriter Beetlejuice, Addams Family
"As a result of Blockbuster, I won a Gold Award at the Charleston Film Festival, and a Bronze Award at the Houston Film Festival in the Comedy category."
Mike Ellis, screenwriter
"My pleasure to let you know an agent has picked up three of my screenplays. All were written by the guidelines of Blockbuster."
James Russell, screenwriter
"Truby's Blockbuster provides a structure both to elicit and keep track of the multitude of ideas and details that emerge in transforming the first vague musings into the finished project."
L. R. Shannon, New York Times
"Among the legions of screenplay guru devotees, few would deny that John Truby is the most cutting edge of the lot. For success, Truby and his software is a match made in screenwriting heaven... No, Blockbuster will not solve all of writing's perennial ills, but it does bring the cure several giant steps closer."
Wade Major, Entertainment Today
* John Truby's Blockbuster is a registered trademark of Truby's Writers Studio. ©2007 John Truby. All rights reserved. This program is not affiliated with Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc.
Truby Breakdowns
Dreamgirls
Cold Mountain
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Gangs of New York
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
BONUS:
Buy Blockbuster, 1 Genre
Software and 1 Genre Audio
Course at a special discount
Dreamgirls
Cold Mountain
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Gangs of New York
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
BONUS:
Buy Blockbuster, 1 Genre
Software and 1 Genre Audio
Course at a special discount
"I'm not exaggerating:
Truby's Blockbuster
revolutionized how I work."
-Laurence Dworet
Screenwriting Software
John Truby has brought his screenwriting expertise to more than 30,000 students, teaching the art form all over the world. Now he's bundled his critically acclaimed approach to story writing into a complete screenwriting program. Truby's Blockbuster program walks you through the intricacies of storytelling, allowing you to learn as your write.
Blockbuster has emerged as Hollywood's premier screenwriting program. Beginners as well as serious screenwriters are offered proven techniques to advance their level of writing with help from the best in the business:
"Among the legions of screenplay guru devotees, few would deny that John Truby is the most cutting edge of the lot. For success, Truby and his software program is a match made in screenwriting heaven... No, Blockbuster will not solve all of writing's perennial ills, but it does bring the cure several giant steps closer." Wade Major, Entertainment Today
Genre-based Screenwriting Program
Truby's Blockbuster software is the only of its kind tailored to each specific genre. Action screenwriters are taught how to write for action movies, and comics for comedies. From the horror screenwriting program to software for love stories, sitcoms and science fiction, each Blockbuster program is geared directly toward the genre itself.
Truby's Blockbuster add-ons include screenwriting programs for:
Action
Comedy
Crime
Detective
Fantasy
Horror
Love
Masterpiece
Myth
Science Fiction
Thriller
Sitcom
TV Drama
Truby's Unique Approach to Storytelling
John Truby's Blockbuster screenwriting program focuses on the philosophy of writing the story. The program takes users through the complexities of character development, the structural order of individual scenes and Truby's 22 building blocks of every great story. Blockbuster is by no means a "paint by numbers" approach to storytelling. Truby's screenwriting program teaches writers how to turn original ideas into completely developed storylines fit for the big screen.
Truby's Blockbuster
revolutionized how I work."
-Laurence Dworet
John Truby has brought his screenwriting expertise to more than 30,000 students, teaching the art form all over the world. Now he's bundled his critically acclaimed approach to story writing into a complete screenwriting program. Truby's Blockbuster program walks you through the intricacies of storytelling, allowing you to learn as your write.
Blockbuster has emerged as Hollywood's premier screenwriting program. Beginners as well as serious screenwriters are offered proven techniques to advance their level of writing with help from the best in the business:
"Among the legions of screenplay guru devotees, few would deny that John Truby is the most cutting edge of the lot. For success, Truby and his software program is a match made in screenwriting heaven... No, Blockbuster will not solve all of writing's perennial ills, but it does bring the cure several giant steps closer." Wade Major, Entertainment Today
Genre-based Screenwriting Program
Truby's Blockbuster software is the only of its kind tailored to each specific genre. Action screenwriters are taught how to write for action movies, and comics for comedies. From the horror screenwriting program to software for love stories, sitcoms and science fiction, each Blockbuster program is geared directly toward the genre itself.
Truby's Blockbuster add-ons include screenwriting programs for:
Action
Comedy
Crime
Detective
Fantasy
Horror
Love
Masterpiece
Myth
Science Fiction
Thriller
Sitcom
TV Drama
Truby's Unique Approach to Storytelling
John Truby's Blockbuster screenwriting program focuses on the philosophy of writing the story. The program takes users through the complexities of character development, the structural order of individual scenes and Truby's 22 building blocks of every great story. Blockbuster is by no means a "paint by numbers" approach to storytelling. Truby's screenwriting program teaches writers how to turn original ideas into completely developed storylines fit for the big screen.
